Whitson Treat

From the collection of

Archif Sgrin a Sain Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive
Established in 2001, the National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive holds an unrivalled collection of films, TV and radio broadcasts, video tapes and sound recordings relating to Wales and the Welsh, from 1898 to the present day. The collection spans multiples formats and genres, both professional and amateur.

Whitson Treat


In those carefree days it was fun to place chairs in an open-backed lorry and ride in style to a Cardiff field for races, ham sandwiches and TEA!

Looking back at footage he shot c.1950, Chris Jenkins adds his nostalgic comments to a musical soundtrack. The St Michael's curate and vicar lead lorry loads of families from the corrugated iron church in Crwys Road, Cardiff, to a field in Llanrhymney (now built on) for a day of races in the sun, ham sandwiches, lemonade, ice-creams and TEA (check out the field hot water boilers!), with milk provided by the churn. This treat is a major operation involving numbers of churches

Chris Jenkins, proprietor of 'Vanda's' hair salon in Charles Street, Cardiff (later moving to premises in Dumfries Place) was a stalwart member and one-time president of Cardiff Amateur Cine Society. He was also an accomplished amateur astronomer and artist. His son, Ken, seen as a young boy in this film, joined him in the hair salon business although he was at heart an engineer/car mechanic.


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